Katz only needed a few elements to sketch the faces and silhouettes of those featured in the 25 small pictures, preparatory studies for large works, on show in Milan’s Galleria Monica De Cardenas (until 31 January), together with two large landscapes painted with oils.
Katz’ style is unmistakable. Lacking a 3D dimension, his works come close to abstract expressionism, to the realism of Edward Hopper, to Pop Art and, finally, to photography and cartoons. The silhouettes of friends, artists, poets, musicians, dancers, his son Vincent and his wife Ada, his main muse, and raised by him to an icon of our times, are almost like cardboard shapes cut outs and then glued on.
until 31.1.2004
Alex Katz. Small Portraits and Large Landscapes
Galleria Monica De Cardenas
Via Viganò 4, Milano
T +39-02-29010068
http://www.alexkatz.com
Galleria Monica De Cardenas
